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An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.

(Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.

es; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.

That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces…

A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]

Of or relating to Hedonism or the Hedonic sect.

pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical. Heliocentric parallax. See under Parallax. -- Heliocentric place, latitude, longitude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed fro…

Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.

A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- n.

Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vessels; -- opposed to neural.

Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.

Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.

Of relating to the hemerobians.

Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.

Of or relating to Sir William Herschel; as, the Herschelian telescope.

Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians. Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zo…

Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.

Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.